March 2015

July 2011

The AMERICAN FREEDOM DEFENSE INITIATIVE (AFDI) is a human rights organization dedicated to human rights, the rule of law, the dignity of the human person, free speech, the free conscience, and equality of rights for all. There is no incitement to violence in our work. This is my treatise on how to fight supremacism. Robert Spencer and I have joined forces to create a proactive, in your face organization that will get things done.

Our first event was at CPAC (not of it). We were most distressed that the largest gathering of conservatives in America did nothing to address the single greatest threat to our national security, our Constitution, our very way of life...... Our event was the first of its kind at CPAC, the largest gathering of conservatives. It featured the first public appearance of Steve Coughlin: Former Pentagon Islam specialist, fired after pressure from Islamic infiltrators. We had the brave former Muslim Dr. Wafa Sultan: Author, A God who Hates, viral video star of Al-Jazeera debate with Islamic cleric (and now living in hiding in the United States), Simon Deng: Ex-slave, leading human rights activist against jihad in Sudan; Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff: facing "hate speech" charges in Austria for telling the truth about Islam; Lt Colonel Allen West: War hero, Congressional candidate (FL 22nd district), future national leader; Robert Spencer and myself.

We have followed up with initiaitives to save Muslim girls from devout Muslim hourseholds threatened with death under the sharia here in America, increased public awareness with bus, taxi and billboard campaigns, and led the opposition to the Ground Zero mosque. Rallies attended by tens of thousands to oppose Islamic supremacism and Islamic law in Ameirca.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI)

The Freedom Defense Initiative is a new organization launched by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Our objective is to go on the offensive when legal, academic, legislative, cultural, sociological, and political actions are taken to dismantle our basic freedoms and values.

FDI acts against the treason being committed by national, state, and local government officials, the mainstream media, and others in their capitulation to the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, the ever-encroaching and unconstitutional power of the federal government, and the rapidly moving attempts to impose socialism and Marxism upon the American people.

It acts against these evils by:

• Organizing grass root small groups at the local level to fight specific Islamic supremacist initiatives in American cities – e.g., the November 2009 Rally for Rifqa Bary in Columbus, Ohio, which called attention to the dangers apostates from Islam live under, and to the threats to religious freedom that are advancing in the U.S. right now

• Organizing counter protests to anti-Israel, anti-Zionism demonstrations • Touring the country on Freedom of Speech in the Age of Jihad tours – bringing the best, clearest voices to national attention

• Building strategic alliances with activist groups in Europe and Israel to engage in open and stealthy counter jihad measures

• Raising awareness of the depredations of Islamic supremacism not just through articles and conferences, but through activist initiatives – e.g., the effort to supply a memorial for honor killing victim Aqsa Parvez, whose body lay in an unmarked grave. This initiative resulted in memorials being constructed for Aqsa in Canada and Israel, and heightened awareness in the West of the horror of Islamic honor killing

• Supporting Geert Wilders and others who are fighting attacks on free speech by the Leftist/Islamic alliance

• Promoting candidates who understand state’s rights and the necessity to limit the power of the federal government [as legal status permits]

• Promoting candidates who fight against the march of Islamic supremacists [as legal status permits]

• Calling attention to specific acts of capitulation and collaboration to Islamic supremacism by government and law enforcement officials, and pressing for the reprimand and removal of those officials; • Targeting infiltrators of our federal agencies and seeking their removal • Articulating and defending a firm Constitutional basis for genuine limitations on the federal government and the rights of the individual states

• Defending the value of private ownership and firmly opposing the nationalization of U.S. industries

• Defending the rights of the private citizen and opposing everything that increases his status of serfdom to the state.

To achieve these ends the Freedom Defense Initiative will:

• Act through the existing Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch websites (which had a combined 22 million page views in the last twelve months) to raise awareness of pertinent issues, using our base (Jihad Watch 30,000 page views per day, Atlas 25,000 page views per day, combined page views two million per month) to build a movement; • Create state organizations that address these issues on a local level (Atlas and Jihad Watch readers will likely head up sub-organizations in each state identifying local issues, targeting specific situations, and developing action plans to fight on the local level);

• Issue Action Alerts through the not inconsiderable reach of Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs, calling people to take a specific action -- whether it be to contact their representatives, write against a nominee (i.e., Harold Koh), attend a hearing, call a rally, etc. • Conduct live coverage of key political, social, and historic events (i.e., the Republican National Convention, and important local, state, and national elections) • Hold seminars featuring as speakers key defenders of freedom;

• Host rallies to demonstrate the awareness and power of the American citizen; • Publish books that support our objectives;

• Act through all possible means to create a large-scale resistance to the forces that are moving rapidly to destroy American Constitutionalism and capitalism.

• Turn readers into effective activists who build their own networks in their communities. They either run or put up candidates to run in school boards, precincts, to get back that what was squandered. All politics is local -- and that’s where we must start.

NEW YORK, July 6: The human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) will be hosting its second annual 9/11 Freedom Rally on September 11 at 3pm at Park Place and West Broadway.

Free citizens are coming from all over the U.S. to attend the rally. “It is crucial to stand for freedom on this tenth anniversary of the heinous 9/11 jihad attacks,” said AFDI Executive Director Pamela Geller. “We must show the jihadists we are unbowed in the defense of freedom.”

AFDI and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program are encouraging all Americans to stand against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero and the anti-Semitic Durban III conference that will be held in New York City at the same time, and for American values on the tenth anniversary of the worst attack ever on American soil.

The confirmed list of speakers includes 9/11 family members Rosaleen Tallon, who lost brother Sean Patrick Tallon, a reservist in the United States Marine Corps and firefighter with Ladder Company, Alexander and Maureen Santora, who lost their firefighter son Christopher; Sally Regenhard, whose son Christian was killed on 9/11; Nelly Braginsky, who lost her son Alexander; and others.

Other speakers include former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton (video message); German MP René Stadtkewitz, leader of Germany’s Freedom Party; the courageous ex-Muslim human rights activist Wafa Sultan; war hero and North Carolina Congressional candidate Ilario Pantano; former prosecutor and bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy; Alan T. DeVona, a World Trade Center Patrol Sergeant who was on duty during the 9/11 jihad attack; Canadian free speech activist, author, publisher and radio host Ezra Levant; popular radio host Joyce Kaufman; Darla Dawald, National Director of the Patriot Action Network; James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Taskforce (VAST); Coptic Christian activist Joseph Nassralla; Iraqi ex-Muslim Michael Paul.

Hosting the rally are Pamela Geller, publisher of the acclaimed AtlasShrugs.com blog, executive director of AFDI and SIOA, and author of Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance (WND Books); and AFDI/SIOA associate director Robert Spencer, the bestselling author and director of Jihad Watch.

Building the Ground Zero mosque is not an issue of religious freedom, but of resisting an effort to insult the victims of 9/11 and to establish a beachhead for political Islam and Islamic supremacism in New York. Cordoba Initiative board member imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is an open proponent of Sharia, Islamic law, a system that denies the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. Given the thousands of triumphal mosques that have been built on the cherished sites of conquered peoples throughout Islamic history, the mosque leaders’ claim that this mosque would be understood differently by Muslims worldwide lack foundation.

The Durban III conference follows upon two previous conferences that scapegoated and demonized the state of Israel in service of Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacist interests. The rally will defend Israel against the defamation to which it will be subjected at this conference. It will also call upon the city to remove roadblocks to the reconstruction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed on 9/11 and since then mired in bureaucratic red tape that has prevented its rebuilding – in stark contrast to the help Mayor Bloomberg and other city officials have given to the Ground Zero Mosque project.

AFDI/SIOA is one of America’s foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

We are thrilled to announce that Ezra Levant,one of the leading lights in the West defending freedom of speech against encroaching Islamic blasphemy laws, will be speaking at our Freedom Rally on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks against America at Ground Zero.

Ezra Levant is a TV anchor, newspaper columnist, author, and lawyer. He was the founding publisher of the Western Standard magazine, the only Canadian media outlet to publish the Danish cartoons of Muhammed. That led to two charges of “hate speech” before the Alberta government’s human rights commission.

There is only one place to be on the tenth anniversary of the bloodiest and biggest attack on American soil in our nation's history -- Ground Zero. Be there; your civilization needs you.